Curiosity Quotes · Page 47

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

— Jason Mraz

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

— Nadine Gordimer

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

— Kim Harrison

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

— Samuel Johnson

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

— Yann Martel

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

— Penelope Lively

Follow your curiosity, and have the courage to meet the challenge. That's where science starts, in my opinion.

— Tasuku Honjo

There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news.

— Bonnie Hammer

If you sit down among hundreds of thousands of albatrosses in a field, pretty soon you'll be completely surrounded by them, as…

— Chris Jordan

A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude.…

— Denise Levertov

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for…

— Josef Pieper

I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and…

— Christian Bale

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp,…

— Edmund Burke

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing…

— John Garrett

The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff…

— Chuck Berry

People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“When he had ended, the holy hermit was a moment silent, then said: "My son, I have attended to thy story and…

— Ambrose Bierce

“She looked at him oddly. “Don’t you want to satisfy your curiosity? Now – and forever, for the one who’ll stay behind?”…

— Greg Egan

A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and…

— Caroline Norton

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because…

— Walt Disney

“Mermon's tiny black dot eyes managed to widen into larger black dots. "No, no, no, Sir. I was just... curious." "Curiosity is…

— Michael Reisman

... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them…

— Thomas Browne

“The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like…

— Diane Ackerman

I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a…

— Jack McDevitt

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

— Anais Nin

Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

— Steve Jobs

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's…

— John Glenn

Love isn't suppose to answer all your questions, only the ones you need to know.

— Akila Sultana

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

— Barry Diller

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

— John Byrne

“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.”

— Kate Griffin

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

— John Burroughs

Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.

— Alastair Humphreys

Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.

— Cameron Winklevoss

“I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity”

— Malcolm X

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full…

— Kate DiCamillo

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason own reason for existing

— Albert Einstein

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

— Pierre Boulez

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was:…

— Jim Morrison

“This is what Danny loves about her. She is so infinitely astounded by the world.”

— Laura Brooke Robson